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been there. landed a great job, loved the coding tasks, had great colleagues. the office was an open-plan one. seemed cold rightaway for me. sitting under a ven
by fubarito 8y ago
been there.
landed a great job, loved the coding tasks, had great colleagues.
the office was an open-plan one.
seemed cold rightaway for me. sitting under a ventilation shaft, the cool air flowing was not pleasant but still liveable.
cold all day long but also sweating at the same time as the office didnt seem to have oxygen.
gasping out of a small kitchen window for air - one of few openable ones :)
did some air vents hacking.
4 months i start to feel weird. cold empassing my bladder, lower stomach. total allergy to any airflow.
took a -20 degree celsius sleeping bag to work. spending my days wrapped in it. didnt help. switching office desks to see if there's a chair i can sit at. the 40+ people in the open plan obviously see theres a nutcase in the building. my direct bosses are compassionate though. they see im not kidding. under-table-portable heating is suggested. geopathogenic zones are suggested existing in place. i go see doctors. im in pain, my bladder us killing me, doctors/urologists say everything is fine with me.
i cant drive the subway because theres draught.
i google sick building syndrome.
us this really hapenning ?
i quit.
they let me go rightaway (thx)
im fine in two weeks.
havent experienced that since (6-7 years?) but been working in non-airconditioned buildings since then.
fearing the moment a next job has similar fucked up problems.
ill say bye bye right away, wont be waiting for months!!!
- Jarwain 8y agoThe only thing I can think of is mold-related, but at low enough concentration that it doesn't affect most people? Sounds like a spooky experience though
- fubarito 8y agoyeah, who knows. im not a fan of air conditioning. never been. maybe my mind just decided "youre not gonna spend your time here boy, open plan offices are nonsense" and it was all psychosomatic. funny is the three months contract i had right before this experience was in winter and i had the pleasure to sit right next to a window having it open almost all the time facing my back, letting in precious oxygen. paradise ! so it was not cold air per-se. to hell with open-plan & air conditioning!
- pharrington 8y agoYours is a horror story about why non-architects absolutely must not attempt retrofitting abandoned warehouses into startup workplaces. The bullshit of calling it an "open-plan" office space is twofold: 1) there was obviously no actual plan to ensure the building was a healthy environment for human occupants and 2) you're describing a literal very large, closed box. Yikes. I'm sorry that you had to experience that. edit: I'm assuming the building you described used to be a warehouse. Obviously, I might be very wrong.
- fubarito 8y agoit was a new office building actually. a glass inferno :)
- Asooka 8y agoOfftopic, but it makes me really angry when I hear about people who are in constant pain, yet when they go to the doctor, they're told "you're perfectly healthy". No admission on the part of the physician that they're simply not all-knowing just "Your numbers are in range, therefore you must be perfectly healthy". It's getting to the point where you need a meta-doctor to tell you what doctor to go to for your problems... Your GP is kind of supposed to fill that role, but it's obvious there are many who don't see their job that way.